Excellent idea, but for Eclipse somewhat problematic (see below)....
I am not going to put a blank project online unless there really is a demand, there is at least the Exadel plugin for eclipse 3.0 which is totally free and several limited time versions for 3.x (and Exadel might also do a free version for 3.1, all those basically give the IDE users a good headstart, I just put references to those plugin collections into the Wiki. That one might serve users better than giving them a blank preconfigured project.
The main problem I saw with doing that with Eclipse on a second though, was, that Eclipse for now does not have any Webapp support at all, all the webapp power has to be integrated via external plugins.
So if you want to do serious webapp development, you have to start to search for plugins anyway, and pointing them towards a blank webapp project does not good in this case, if the user is a newby. So pointing them towards a workable decent free or cheap plugin collection which is able to generate a project structure might be better.
Werner John Fallows wrote:
I know we haven't looked closely at Maven(2) for MyFaces yet, but has anyone tried the following commands on other projects that use Maven? maven idea maven eclipse http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/idea/ http://maven.apache.org/reference/plugins/eclipse/ We have developed an in-house Maven2 JDeveloper 10g plugin that generates the workspace and all project files, with correct local library definitions pointing into the local Maven repository and proper inter-project dependency mechanisms. m2 jdeveloper:jdeveloper The idea and eclipse plugins are also available for Maven2. m2 idea:idea m2 eclipse:eclipse http://maven.apache.org/maven2/plugins/maven-eclipse-plugin/ http://maven.apache.org/maven2/plugins/maven-idea-plugin/ Perhaps this will be a useful approach for MyFaces developers in the future. Kind Regards, John Fallows.
